Following the leak of a classified slide deck by an NSA contractor this past June, the agency’s previously secretive PRISM program entered the public spotlight and inspired vigorous debate over its legality and overall implications for individual privacy.

The advent of software-as-a-service (SaaS) has changed how enterprises approach their IT operations, with many departments now regarding server infrastructure management, maintenance and vigilant security monitoring as tasks properly assigned to their cloud providers.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs stores and deals with a lot of sensitive information on veterans and their families every day, so the results of a recent report by the department’s Office of Inspector General is not a welcome sign.

The U.S. government’s Cloud First plan, which is a directive that tells agencies to look to cloud computing solutions first during IT procurement processes, is getting some help from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Big data is becoming a huge issue in modern technology, as more companies are now aware of some of the great benefits use of large pools of information can have in predictive analytics and customer relations. However, there are still many who don’t think about data center security.

Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, a private panel of defense, military, technology and political officials co-chaired by former Utah governor Jon Huntsman and Dennis Blair, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and former Director of National Intelligence, issued a report at the end of May which has some cyber security experts and critics scratching their head.

The amount of sensitive information information held by insurance companies can be staggering and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is launching an effort to make sure these companies are keeping their cyber security where it needs to be.

Since the announcement of the new Xbox One in May, there have been many consumers and industry experts worried about the data security and privacy of the system. The main issue has been the motion sensor camera Kinect, which must be attached in order for the device to work. A Microsoft official told Kotaku that the machine will not always be watching and listening and can be completely switched off.